How corrupt is your country? | Corruption | Al Jazeera

Its annual Corruption Perception Index reveals some alarming trends. It shows public service corruption is still a huge problem for two-thirds of the world’s economies.

The report uses a scale of zero to 100 to rank countries: zero is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean. Syria, South Sudan and Somalia rank lowest with scores of 14, 12 and 9 respectively. New Zealand comes out on top but with a score of 89.

The best performing region is Western Europe with an average score of 66, while the worst performing regions are sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Max Heywood, a money laundering expert at Transparency International, says “the index we published shows that out of 180 countries around the world, two-thirds of them are